Quote Originally Posted by niky View Post
Goes without saying: Avoid taxis or airport taxis.

Beat to hell and back.

Previous generation Vios, best to have a mechanic along with you to check the cooling system and engine. These models had insufficient cooling. The current gen is much more robust, but in retuning the engine, Toyota made it a bit... thirsty.
With our previous Gen Vios (2007-2014), i just keep watch on the condition of the aux fan (and i had a spare aux fan assembly on-hand already when the car was getting someone old). Also change the coolant and radiator cap every 40,000kms. At 150,000kms so far so good. I like the quality of the interior plastics of this generation over the current model but i do agree that the current model seems to drive faster (i rented one for barnstorming Cebu Island a month ago).